Obit for Churchill, Aaron E. - Grady County OK Thanks to http://www.chickashanews.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. © The Chickasha Express-Star 18 Jun 2006 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Rose Hill Cemetery--Chickasha OK © The Chickasha Express-Star 10 May 2004 Aaron E. Churchill Funeral service for Aaron E. Churchill, 87, of Chickasha, will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday May 11, 2004, in the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home. Aaron E. Churchill was born December 31, 1916, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. He was the son of M.A. and Lucy (Livesay) Churchill, and died Saturday, May 8, 2004, in Chickasha. He had moved to Wilburton, Oklahoma, at 5 years old. He and Minnie Bell Ekers were married January 4, 1941, in Checotah, Oklahoma. Mr. Churchill served in the Army Medical Corps in December of 1942. He went to the Island of Corsica in May of 1943 and was stationed in Italy on May 7, 1945. He was discharged at Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas, November 18, 1945, as a Master Sgt. He worked at Borden Army Hospital for 5 months and later worked at Chickasha Cotton Oil Co. for 6 years from 1946 to 1952. He then worked for APCO Oil Company until his retirement in 1973. He then worked for Pet, Inc. for 9 years. He retired again in 1982. He was a member of the First Christian Church since 1955. He had served in virtually every office of the church. Mr. Churchill was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star since 1948. He served as Worshipful Master in 1956, Worthy Patron in the Order of the Eastern Star in 1959, District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Oklahoma. He received his 50-year Masonic pin and 50-year Eastern Star pin in 1998. He was preceded in death by his parents and nine brothers and sisters. Survivors include his wife Minnie Bell, of the home in Chickasha; one daughter, Martha Churchill, of Oklahoma City; one sister, Laverne Fleming, of Pryor, Oklahoma; one brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Elmore and Joyce Isaacs; and a host of nieces and nephews. Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html